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Topic: i have a lump in my anus, can this be anal cancer? (Read 26718 times)

I am freaking out now. I have notices this lump before but have ignored it for about a year or more thinking it was nothing serious but on occassion i have blood in my stool and diahhrea unrelated to meds. I just checked on my own and felt that same polyp or lump and it is pretty big and am thinking i may have something serious. I am freaking out. can someone please give some input.

How, you are fortunate to be living in New York, where the doctors are much more up-to-date about the issues regarding anal HPV infection and possible cancer in PLWHA. You need to have an anal Pap smear and/or a high-resolution anoscopy. The latter can be done by an appropriate colorectal specialist. Speak to your primary-care provider or infectious-disease specialist ASAP.

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"No one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences."--Albert Camus, "The Plague"

"Mankind can never be free until the last brick in the last church falls on the head of the last priest."--Voltaire

I have hemorrhoids for a long time. I didn't know what that was. I can't stand for a long time and it was sometimes very painful. A blood on your stool also is also one of its sign. And one time my anus came out and being frightened I went to the doctor and go for a surgery. Then it was after few months that I started treatment for HIV. In fact this hemorrhoid was not related to my HIV status as it has been with me for a very long time. After surgery now I am very fine. So my advice to you, if you think you have that disease go to your doctor and there is effective medical treatment which you should undergo.

It is most likely to be a haemorrhoid or sommat also simple but you need to get you doc to look up your bum, and perhaps take a swab too, to find out for sure. If it is something more serious you don't want to wait and find out.

Went to the doctor today and he said i am fine but have a few hemroids.e gave me some things to stick up my butt 3x a day to ease the pain and swollen nerves. should be ok. IT is those damn commercials on tv playing here in NYC stating that we are 17 x more likely of anal cancer but my doc said even if it;s true which it is, it is still like less than 1% of hiv poz people who get it. so i am happy now...